Decryption Profile for No Decryption
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Decryption Profile for No Decryption
The No Decryption profile blocks risky sessions for traffic
that you choose not to decrypt by policy rule.
The No Decryption profile ()
controls server verification checks for traffic that you choose
not to decrypt as defined in “No Decryption” Decryption policies
to which you attach the profile. (Don’t exclude traffic that you
can’t decrypt because a site breaks decryption for technical reasons
such as a pinned certificate or mutual authentication by policy.
Instead, add the hostname to the Decryption Exclusion List.) The following
figure shows the general best practice recommendations for the No
Decryption profile settings, but the settings you use also depend
on your company’s security compliance rules and local laws and regulations.
- Block sessions with expired certificates—Always check this box to block sessions with servers that have expired certificates and prevent access to potentially insecure sites. If you don’t check this box, users can connect with and transact with potentially malicious sites and see warning messages when they attempt to connect, but the connection is not prevented.
- Block sessions with untrusted issuers—Always check this box to block sessions with servers that have untrusted certificate issuers. An untrusted issuer may indicate a man-in-the-middle attack, a replay attack, or other attack.
(Applies to TLSv1.2 and earlier) If you choose to allow
sessions with untrusted issuers (not recommended) and only Block
sessions with expired certificates, there is a scenario
in which a session with a trusted, expired issuer may be blocked
inadvertently. When the firewall’s certificate store contains a
valid, self-signed Trusted CA and the server sends an expired CA
in the certificate chain, the firewall does not check its certificate
store. Instead, the firewall blocks the session based on the expired
CA when it should find the trusted, valid alternative trust anchor
and allow the session based on that trusted self-signed certificate.
To
avoid this scenario, in addition to Block sessions with
expired certificates, enable Block sessions
with untrusted issuers. This forces the firewall to
check its certificate store, find the self-signed Trusted CA, and
allow the session.